Clint Dempsey on Saturday finally slapped the ball into the back of the net for the Seattle Sounders — but not before he slapped another kind.

The soccer megastar said it was an accident. But near the end of the first half of Seattle’s match against Toronto FC, his team already down 2-0 at CenturyLink Field, Dempsey took down an opponent in a most uncomfortable way.

Poor Toronto defender Mark Bloom found himself rolling on the pitch after Dempsey swung his hand backward into Bloom’s crotch. Dempsey drew a foul — one of the Sounders’ 15 fouls in the 2-1 loss in front of 38,441 fans.

Check out the video below. Oof.

In Seattle’s second game of the 2014 MLS season, Dempsey scored his first goal of the year in the 68th minute, when he took a pass from Obafemi Martins and powered it past Toronto goalkeeper Julio Cesar. Read our entire game report.